Once Shinobi, Now Hero

Chapter 19: Unpleasant Reflection

AU: Sorry for the extended hiatus. I wanted to come back with two chapters instead of just this one as the next chapter pushes the plot a bit but it would take me a another week to write it so I decided to go ahead and push this one out. I just got a stomach virus so please bear with me as I try and push out this next chapter.

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Kakashi doesn't respond to that statement. He's sure it is pleasant to meet him for her. Those eyes of her tell him that she's thinking of something. Her bland face and impassive look did nothing to get rid of the emotion in her eye. In fact, it only made it show more.

"Isn't there anything you want to say to that?" Seems she didn't like the silent treatment.

He isn't sure what to say to that. He thought the reason they locked him away was because no one wanted to see him.

"No." He rasps involuntarily. He wants water but won't ask her for it.

Her eyes narrow and she slowly takes her time walking about the bed, never taking her eyes off him. He makes sure that his eyes never leave her. If this is the president of the Hero Commission he was definitely in some deep shit and they know about what he'd done. He should've hid it better, maybe, he didn't know if he regrets it or not.

"Hmm, you're a lot more quiet than I thought you'd be, boy. Is that because you can no longer use your quirk?"

Well now he knew why she had that look on her face, as if she was in control. Kakashi was deciding between if he wanted to out her on it and tell her that it wasn't because of that or simply use that as an advantage to him. Thinking about that for even a second made the choice obvious.

He made an obvious face of anger and was relived to see her take the bait.

A smile graces her bland face and it makes him a bit sick. The smile is disgusting. She stops at the foot of his bed after turning around to recirle around his bed. She reaches down and he thinks she's about to touch him and commits himself to killing her when nothing comes close to his body at all. She reaches down briefly and comes up with a clipboard.

She's quite as she scrolls though it. Then she hums and settles her gaze on him.

"You already had various scars before you were discovered. I'd like to know where they came from."

Kakashi continues to stare, she thinks it's in defiance and a smirk domes to her face. A smirk that tells him she's up to no good.

"Fine, if you want to play it like that, so be it."

His hand twitches again when she circles his bed again, coming to his left side, where the heart monitor stood. The beep minutely escalates.

"Just because you are conscious doesn't mean you will survive. I saw what you did out there. You could've escaped, but you didn't. You knew you would've died otherwise. You're smart for your age, but I want that for myself. Work for me."

Despite his poker face, the heart monitor only picked up, conveying what he truly felt. He couldn't leave. He couldn't die. He promised Obito that he would protect Rin. He hadn't done a thing! He couldn't die!

But he couldn't be manipulated either.

He couldn't. His talent was for Konoha to use, not for this world; this woman to control.

"Answer me." In her lifted hand, she held the plug that was keeping him alive. Apparently, he was on life support. But would he really die. His chakra was admittedly low, but it was enough to sustain his life or he would've already died.